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Can dance and performance be defined as poetry? To answer this question, we must first ask oureslves why does the word poetry evoke a textual activity? History informs our concepts. We’ve been taught that poets WRITE poems instead of DOES or IS BEING poems. We’ve disarticulated this activity from the body. The removal of poetry as an embodied activity has led to postmodern ideas such as the death of the author. How can the author be dead if the words, when recited by another living being, become alive and are embodied in someone else? If I recite a poem, and even…

Poetry has been defined as a way of writing. In the early 1960s, Robin Skelton writes that poetry is difficult to define. It is well known that between poets, critics, and the captivated readers of poetry there’s been staggering disagreements.…